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Attack of the Dead Men
Attack of the Dead Men: German chlorine (possibly with bromine) gas assault on Russia's Osowiec Fortress, 6 August 1915, repulsed by the gas-burned 13th Company counterattack under Kotlinsky; fortress abandoned weeks later.
Attack on Mers-el-Kébir
Attack on Mers-el-Kébir (Operation Catapult): British Royal Navy bombardment of the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir near Oran, Algeria, on 3 July 1940, killing over 1,200 French sailors after France's armistice with Germany.
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Attack on Pearl Harbor: the Imperial Japanese Navy's surprise carrier air raid of December 7, 1941 on the US Pacific Fleet in Hawaii, with 350 planes in two waves, killing over 2,400 Americans and bringing the US into World War II.
Attack on Sydney Harbour
The Attack on Sydney Harbour was a Japanese raid on the night of 31 May 1942 in which three midget submarines entered the harbor and sank HMAS Kuttabul, killing 21 sailors.
Attack on the Moncada Barracks
Failed July 26, 1953 assault by Fidel Castro and about 160 rebels on the Moncada army garrison in Santiago de Cuba, also Bayamo; birth of the 26th of July Movement and the Cuban Revolution.
Attack on the Sui-ho Dam
The Attack on the Sui-ho Dam was a United Nations air operation of the Korean War, begun on June 23, 1952, that bombed five North Korean hydroelectric plants.
Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine: Ukrainian drone, missile, and sabotage strikes reaching at least 60 Russian regions since 2022, escalating from 245 attacks in 2022 to over 1,000 drones in a single 2026 attack, mainly targeting oil, military, and data infrastructure.
Attacks on health facilities during the Gaza war
Attacks on health facilities during the Gaza war: documented strikes, sieges, and obstructions against Gaza hospitals, clinics, and ambulances since 7 October 2023, with WHO, OHCHR, and Commission of Inquiry counts, legal framework, and health-system collapse.
Attacks on religious sites during the Gaza war
Documented attacks on mosques, churches and cemeteries in Gaza since 7 October 2023, including UNESCO counts of damaged religious sites and UN war-crimes findings.
Attacks on schools during the Gaza war
Attacks on schools during the Gaza war are military actions that have damaged or destroyed school buildings in the Gaza Strip since October 2023. Nearly all school buildings sustained damage.
Attacks on the United States
Attacks on the United States: hostile actions against US territory and forces, from the War of 1812 and Pearl Harbor (2,403 dead, 1941) to the September 11 al-Qaeda attacks (about 3,000 dead) and recent Iranian missile strikes on US forces.
Attempted assassination of Andy Warhol
Attempted assassination of Andy Warhol: on June 3, 1968 Valerie Solanas, author of the SCUM Manifesto, shot Warhol at his Factory studio at 33 Union Square West, also wounding Mario Amaya; Warhol survived after five hours of surgery.
Attempted assassination of Bob Marley
Attempted assassination of Bob Marley: December 3, 1976 shooting at 56 Hope Road, Kingston, by gunmen two days before the Smile Jamaica concert; Marley, Rita Marley, and Don Taylor wounded, no deaths, CIA theories unverified.
Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania
Attempted assassination of Donald Trump: Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, fired eight AR-15 rounds at Trump from an AGR building roof at the July 13, 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania rally, grazing his ear, killing Corey Comperatore; Secret Service failures and discipline followed.
Attempted assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Giuseppe Zangara's February 15, 1933 attempt to kill President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami's Bayfront Park; FDR was unhurt, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak died, and Zangara was executed March 20, 1933.
Attempted assassination of Lee Jae Myung
The attempted assassination of Lee Jae Myung (이재명 피격 사건): 2 January 2024 stabbing in the neck of the DPK chairman in Busan by a man in his 60s; 15-year sentence, later terrorism designation, Lee elected president in 2025.
Attempted assassination of Rodolfo Graziani
The attempted assassination of Rodolfo Graziani was a grenade attack on 19 February 1937 against the Italian Viceroy of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, which he survived; the reprisals that followed became the Yekatit 12 massacre.
Attila's invasion of the Western Roman Empire
Attila's invasion of the Western Roman Empire was a two-year Hunnic campaign, 451–452, into Gaul and northern Italy, halted at the Catalaunian Plains and by diplomacy.
Atusparia Uprising
The Atusparia Uprising was an indigenous peasant rebellion that began in March 1885 in Áncash, Peru, led by Pedro Pablo Atusparia against the reinstated head tax and forced labor.
August Revolution
August Revolution (Cách mạng Tháng Tám), the Viet Minh's August 1945 seizure of power in Vietnam after Japan's 9 March coup and 15 August surrender, leading to Bảo Đại's abdication, Ho Chi Minh's 2 September 1945 independence declaration, and the DRV.
August Uprising
The August Uprising was a large-scale anti-Soviet rebellion in Georgia that began on 28 August 1924, aimed to restore independence lost to Soviet occupation in 1921, and was crushed within weeks amid mass executions.
August von Kruse
August Freiherr von Kruse (1779–1848), Nassau lieutenant general and agricultural reformer. Led the 2nd Nassau Regiment in the Peninsular War, defected to the British at Bayonne in 1813, and commanded the Nassau brigade at Waterloo.
Aurès maquis
The Aurès maquis were FLN guerrilla bands in Algeria's Aurès Mountains that launched the Algerian War in 1954 and held out until independence in 1962.
Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz (Oświęcim), the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp complex in occupied Poland (1940–1945), including Auschwitz II-Birkenau; about 1.1 million people murdered, roughly one million of them Jews, liberated by the Red Army on 27 January 1945.
Auschwitz Sonderkommando revolt
Sonderkommando revolt at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, October 7, 1944: Jewish crematoria workers attacked SS at Crematorium IV using smuggled gunpowder, set it on fire, and attempted escape; about 250-400 prisoners died, four women executed.
Auspicious Incident
Auspicious Incident (Vaka-i Hayriye), June 1826: Sultan Mahmud II crushed a Janissary revolt, abolished the corps, banned the Bektashi order, and founded the Asakir-i Mansure-i Muhammediye, enabling Ottoman military modernization.
Australia–Timor-Leste spying scandal
The Australia–Timor-Leste spying scandal: alleged 2004 ASIS bugging of Timorese treaty negotiators in Dili, exposed by Witness K and lawyer Bernard Collaery, leading to 2013 ASIO raids, an ICJ case, prosecutions dropped in 2022, and the 2018 maritime treaty.
Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), First World War corps formed in Egypt December 1914 under Birdwood; its 25 April 1915 Gallipoli landing created Anzac Cove, Anzac Day, and the word Anzac.
Australian frontier wars
The Australian frontier wars: violent conflicts between Indigenous Australians and British settlers, soldiers, and colonial police from 1788 to the 1930s, with at least 20,000 Indigenous deaths and ongoing commemoration debates.
Australian War Memorial
The Australian War Memorial is Australia's national shrine, museum, and archive in Canberra, conceived by Charles Bean, designed by Sodersteen and Crust, opened 11 November 1941, governed under the Australian War Memorial Act 1980.